"FromTheRafters" <!0000@nomad.fake> wrote in message
news:vjdtmgmoiml2e4@corp.supernews.com...
Thanks for the info. I did not and still do not have any anti-virus
software installed in my system. I have a Firewall and spybot search and
destroy and
do very little that puts me or the system at risk (other than opening email
attachments what are already suspicious. I do know better, that is why I
said "inexplicably". I have no idea what made me decide to open the saved
attachment. I tried at first to run it in place but got a warning about not
finding any
publisher's certificate so I saved it to disk and ran it anyway. The only
word for this
is S T U P I D!!
When I was chatting with McAfee I was pretending to be my sister who does
have a registered and licensed copy of their Anti-Virus program. To whom
should I report this? The Tech Rep did not seem too interested in a copy of
the file so I did not offer or send it to them, I still have the original
email files
with the nasty attachment on my disk. As I said in my post, my floppy does
not work but I do have an ancient 28.8 FAX/Modem so I could send it that
way to any interested parties. This particular variant erases all obvious
backups
of system.dat and user.dat. I was lucky and found an old registry file that
an
Internet Explorer upgrade made and solved the user problems by creating a
new
user so everything is more or less back to normal on my system. It even
solved a
problem that has been plaguing me ever since late July, which slows my
system to
a crawl whenever I have more that about three web pages open. There were
times it took up to five MINUTES to get a cursor in a fill-in-the-blanks
field.
I do thank you for pointing me in the right direction to learn more about
the other
variants of this virus. I did search using google, but did not search for
"killerguate" but
instead searched for "NBC News Chronology Computer Virus" which found
nothing
that was relevant. Interestingly enough it did find a CNN/NBC venture to
make information
about 9/11 easily available posted in September 2001. I received a second
email of identical size
and contents was allegedly from CNN, which I did not and will not open!!
Robert
